...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Philosophy begins in wonder.